Silencing Yourself?

  It's so much easier to shut down rather than engage in uncomfortable topics 

where one feels insecure.  It's far easier to see things from a standpoint of either/or 

rather than navigate the potent terrain of both/and.  Learning a new way of 

doing something or being with someone feels awkward and unsettling.  

I'm learning not to avoid the discomfort but to gather my tattered fragments 

of courage and persist into unknown territory.  kas